Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-04-06
ROODLE-HAUNTED.
The Terrible BuGaboo Row
Alarm ng carson Children.

rods ahead, crying terribly. Whtr
he asked the lad what was the
matter he said between his sob,
that he was out late and was afraid
that the boodlers would cateh
him"
The officer was at first disl oSed
to look al 1T as a joke. but found
that the little fellow was really ter
ribly alarmed.
He said that his mother had re-
ceived a newspaper the day before
wrapped around head of cabbage
which she had bought. aud 1t had q
piece in about the boodlers of Car
son. He heard his mother read
the piece, and it said that there
were lot of booGlers in Ormsby
county, and that they were eating
up the taxpayers. He was afraid
they would eat him, too. The Of
icer took the child home. and
found that his mother having read
about the Ormsby county boodlers
had told her child that if 1t stayed
out late the boodlers would catch
him.
The officers investigated the mat
ter and found that it was a common
thing for the mothers in the neigh
borhood to tell their children that
the boodlcrs would eat up every one
of them if they stayed out after
dark.
The APPEAL reporter looked into
the matter and found that the be-
lief in the doodle gang" was wide
spread among certain ignorant
class who bad read about it in
newspaper, and the boodlers spread
more terror than the famous Cock
Lane Ghost that years ago stalkeG
abroad in London
Tracing the story TO its fountain
head, the reporter found that some
months ago man in this city be-
gan to labor under the hqllucina-
ton that there was large gang of
bloodthlrsty boodlers in Orms by
county, who at midnight made a
raid on the Treasury safe and spir
tied off large blocks of county
money. He began to talk in a
strange. weird way about the Doodle
gang, until he became haunted by
them night and day, and his stories
caused great CONSERVATION among
the children of the Deig hborhood.
He labors under the iuea that he
will some day be assassirated by
the soodlerS and keeps carving
knife as keen as razor under bis
desk where it can be ready for i'm
mediate use. When he walks
around he peers into the alleys and
corners where be thinks a boodler
might be secreted. To him every
bush holds its boodler armed to the
teeth, and ready to pounce, not
only upon him, but also upon any
taxpayer who might be out late at
night.
He tells people that the Doodle
gang are growing daily in Ormsby
county under the leadership of such
fends OF darkness, as the notorious
Dec. Lee, Sam Wright the grave
digger, the APPEAL bandit, Bill
Stewart, the midnight terror Of the
sagebrush, Yerington, the railroad
horror, and other men equally uu-
scrupulous. He firmly believes
that this Doodle gang meet at
Wright's graveyard each Thursday
in the week and there roast tax
payers in pot Of live Goals, after
which they are buried in the four
corners of the graveyard with vari-
Gus Doodle rites and rituals. After
this they proceed to the County
Treasury, break in the door with
dynamite aud divide the spoils
equally between them.
The Doodle haunted man has
learned to regard all his neighbors
as boodlers and the moan of the
night wind, the rumble of thunder
in the mountains or the distant
shrek of the locomotive whistles
are to hin, the snoring of the
boodlers In the adjacant block, re-
freshing themselves with sleep
that they may begin their unholy
raid on the hopeless taxpayers of
Ormsby. He firmly believes
that on a fixed day signal will be